Robert Morss Lovett
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Robert Morss Lovett (December 25, 1870 – February 8, 1956) was an American academic, writer, editor, political activist, and government official.
Background
Lovett was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1892. While a student at Harvard, he joined Delta Upsilon fraternity.[citation needed
]
Career
After a period teaching at Harvard, Lovett came to
National Institute of Arts and Letters. Professor Lovett was the author of The History of English Literature, with W. V. Moody (1902); Richard Gresham, a novel (1904); The First View of English Literature, with W. V. Moody (1905); A Winged Victory, a novel (1907); and Cowards, a play (1914). He served as editor of the Dial in 1917 and joined the editorial staff of The New Republic in 1921. He assisted Tarak Nath Das
.
Lovett was associate editor of The New Republic magazine in 1921-40, and a signer, in 1933, of the
Humanism and Its Aspirations.[1]
As Government Secretary of the
Governor
from December 14, 1940 until February 3, 1941.
In 1943, the
Dies Committee charged him as a communist subversive, over his association with left-wing individuals and groups; through an enactment passed by both houses of Congress, he was forced out of the Secretary position and barred from federal employment. Lovett, who denied he was a Communist, challenged this action through the courts as an unconstitutional bill of attainder, and though he did not get the job back, he won a 1946 decision from the Supreme Court (United States v. Lovett
), and received back pay.
Personal life and death
Lovett spent many years living at Hull House, where his wife Isa Mott Smith was aide to Jane Addams.[2] He died in St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago in 1956.
References
- ^ "Humanist Manifesto I." American Humanist Association. Accessed Sep. 15, 2012.
- ^ Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1: The Authors
- Review of Liberal to a Fault., by Robert Morss Lovett. Time (Jun. 21, 1948).
- "Robert M. Lovett, Educator, Is Dead" (New York Times (Feb. 9, 1956), p. 31.
External links
- Works by or about Robert Morss Lovett at Internet Archive
- Robert Morss Lovett papers (University of Chicago Library)
- United States v. Lovett, 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ruling
- Robert Morss Lovett materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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